Match and merge geospatial and demographic datasets — merge_geo

This function adds the key information of a demographic dataset to a geospatial dataset based on the spatial aggregation level. Since the smallest level of spatial aggregation present in the demographic datasets is municipality, this function can only merge with geospatial datasets that present municipality or department level.

Usage

merge_geo_demographic(demographic_dataset, simplified = TRUE)

Arguments

demographic_dataset: character with the demographic dataset name. Please use list_datasets("demographic", "EN") or list_datasets("demographic", "ES") to check available datasets.
simplified: logical for indicating if the downloaded spatial data should be a simplified version of the geometries. Simplified versions are lighter but less precise, and are recommended for easier applications like plots. Default is TRUE.

Value

data.frame object with the merged data.

Examples

if (FALSE) { # \dontrun{
merged <- merge_geo_demographic("DANE_CNPVV_2018_9VD", TRUE)
head(merged)
} # }